Casemate Publishers imprint: 39 books
Axis Sally
The American Voice of Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A “fascinating, well-researched account” of Mildred Gillars, the failed actress who turned on her country and became a Nazi propagandist during WWII (Publishers Weekly).
One of the most notorious Americans of the twentieth century was a failed Broadway actress turned radio announcer named...
Shade It Black
Death and After in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A female marine’s “absorbing memoir” recounting her work with the remains and personal effects of fallen soldiers and her battle with PTSD (Publishers Weekly).
In 2008, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: “Tell me the...
Bailout Over Normandy
A Flyboy’s Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The thrilling memoir of a WWII fighter pilot’s fight for survival in Occupied France, working with the French Resistance and escaping Nazi capture.
A daredevil aviator in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, Ted Fahrenwald bailed out of his burning P-51 Mustang two days after D-day and was launched...
Guardian Angel
Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
“A fabulous read, filled with heroism, history, and hi-jinks, as author William F. Sine recounts his life as an Air Force Pararescue Jumper” (Readers’ Favorite).
US Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue...
Hal Moore
A Soldier Once . . . And Always
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The definitive biography of Harold G. Moore, hero of the Vietnam War and author of the bestselling memoir of the battle at Ia Drang.
Hal Moore, one of the most admired American combat leaders of the last fifty years, has until now been best known to the public for being portrayed by Mel Gibson...
Shadow Commander
The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The true story of the US Army legend who organized “Blackburn’s Headhunters” against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam.
The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky....
American Guerrilla
The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and Became the True “Father” of Army Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A main selection of the Military Book Club and a selection of the History Book Club
With his parting words, “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared...
Escape to Pagan
The True Story of One Family's Fight to Survive in World War II Occupied Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The true story of a soldier who survived Japanese capture, a sinking hell ship, and the bombing of Nagasaki, all while his family fought their own battle in the Burmese jungle.
While leading an attack on Hong Kong’s Golden Hill, Jack Devereux of the Royal Scots is shot through the head. Then...
Behind the Lines
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
After killing a fellow officer, a British World War I fighter joins the ranks of deserters and outlaws in a suspenseful novel from the author of Bretherton.
Behind the Lines follows army man Peter Rawley, who accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer and, terrified that he...
Second Front
The Allied Invasion of France, 1942–43 (An Alternative History)
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
What would have happened if Churchill’s Mediterranean strategy was overruled? This novel of an alternate D-Day explores this fascinating scenario.
One of the great arguments of World War II took place among Allied military leaders over when and where to launch a second front against Germany...
Pagan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The horrors of World War I continue to haunt two veterans on holiday in 1930s France in this “stirring” novel (Books Monthly).
In the War to End All Wars, Charles Pagan and Dick Baron fought side by side and survived the slaughter. Over a decade later, they return to France not as soldiers...
Roux the Bandit
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A Frenchman flees his small mountain village to avoid service in World War I in a thoughtful, witty novel about the conflict of patriotism and conscience.
Deep in the Cévennes Mountains of southern France, a man called Roux refuses to heed the call to duty at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead,...
by George Koskimaki
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A collection of eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings that “gives you the [feeling] that you are there during the frenzied first hours of the invasion” (Kepler’s Military History Book Reviews).
Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account...
Shanghai 1937
Stalingrad on the Yangtze
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The New York Times bestseller that inspired the documentary Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began on Public Television.
At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often...